🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Price wrote:
> Thanks
> Mark
> "Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche" <outrider@mag-murphy.net> wrote in
> message news:bm2mao$hvl4e$1@ID-3837.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> Mark Price wrote:
>>> I was asked during installation how much I wanted to keep on disc
>>> and how much to put in the hard drive . I picked crazy because I
>>> have the room. Is there one level that is better than another? I
>>> guess when 1 gig HDs were cutting edge that was more of a concern.
>>> It said that the play would be better if I put more of it on my HD.
>>> Is this true?
>> Sort of. The two highest levels, as far as I know, only differ in
>> "Crazy" having the movies installed to the hard disk as well. That
>> is, the level below "Crazy" probably won't make much of a
>> difference. The lower levels leave more data on the CD, which will
>> consequently have to be loaded off the CD at the start of the level.
>> In short, play itself won't change much, but the loading times will.
>> Even then though, with nowadays' CD drives, that won't make much of
>> a difference. The main advantage of the "Crazy" install is that you
>> can use a no-CD crack or D2x and play without the CD. :)
>>
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Florian
>>
>> --
>> Florian "The Outrider" Piesche
>> outrider@mag-murphy.net - http://www.mag-murphy.net
>> "Ein Würfelbecher für Shadowrun hat in etwa die Größe eines
>> handelsüb- lichen Flugfrachtcontainers. ;)"

Mark, I can use D2 (with win2k) by installing the D2 Win95 "upgrade", then
running the game in the "win95 compatibility layer". This may help:
http://www.descent2.com/patches/d2/nt_notes.shtml

cheers